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My Mind Wants to Cry Out Loud

Posted about 5 years ago
One of my resolutions this year is to organize my CD collection. I started out all gung-ho about it, but my project is losing inertia. I've been swimming in stacks of mix CDs for the past few weeks, trying to listen to them & re-label them. Tonight, I came across a great mix I made back in 2001. "I Feel Free":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Feel_Free was the first track. I remember playing this song out when I left for college that year. This little video shows the trio frolicking about in the park. They definitely look like they feel free...
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Comments (15)

  1. Lyla
    Lyla says i've been on an eric clapton/cream kick all day at work. i was so born in the wrong decade.
    Permalink posted 01/14/2007
  2. kat3260
    kat3260 says ditto! when I watch Woodstock videos, I feel like I should've been there.
    Permalink posted 01/14/2007
  3. Lyla
    Lyla says haha! my dad's birthday present to me when i was 15 was the woodstock dvds, and i was completely addicted. actually, have you seen The Last Waltz? it's The Band's (Bob Dylan's band) last performance, directed by Martin Scorcese with a bunch of interviews mixed in, but the live performances are the shit. It actually starts out with a huge screen that says, "THIS FILM SHOULD BE PLAYED LOUD" and it's got guest appearances by Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, Van Morrison, Joni Mitchell, Ringo Starr, Muddy Waters, and...god, a whole bunch of people. Completely goddamn amazing, I'm totally addicted and watch it probably once a week, ha.
    Permalink posted 01/14/2007
  4. kat3260
    kat3260 says oh hell yeah...i love _The Last Waltz_. I was so happy when I found it on DVD for $9.99 a couple years back.
    Permalink posted 01/14/2007
  5. ROCKNROLLPIMP1
    ROCKNROLLPIMP1 says killa hang with it grrrr it will take me all year just to straighten this multiply mess ya'll have made on HAL9000
    Permalink posted 01/14/2007
  6. Spike
    Spike says That video was a real treat. The cinematography was simple-minded but easy on the eyes, perhaps influenced by that scene in "A Hard Day's Night" where they're running on the grass. Cream looked free, suddenly free, and that spirit was in the air, with hits like the Animals' "It's My Life," the Rolling Stones' "I'm Free," Jimi Hendrix's "Stone Free," and what was starting to be called rock music spearheading a radically new youth culture explosion. A big part of Cream's early sound was their two-part vocal harmony, voiced differently from the Beatles' or the Everly Brothers'. Eric Clapton at this point was at the cutting edge with the radically new guitar sound that Hendrix and fellow Yardbird Jeff Beck were exploring. After Cream, Clapton reverted to the older Freddy & Albert King style.
    Permalink posted 01/14/2007
  7. jimmybearpearson
    jimmybearpearson says Oh lord. Cream... I feel free... It's a part of me, the feeling, the sound, the musicians... New sounds and harmonies, indeed. They really understood, I think.
    Permalink posted 01/14/2007
  8. kat3260
    kat3260 says glad you enjoyed the video Spike. i love that vocal harmony, and obviously...Clapton kicks much ass. I love that brief bit of solo greatness. pimp - hal9000 :D it would take me longer than a year to sort through *60,000* mp3s!!!
    Permalink posted 01/14/2007
  9. kat3260
    kat3260 says jimmybear - they were quite good at fusing the whole blues & psychedelic movement...it's hard to describe music that great
    Permalink posted 01/14/2007
  10. CrashPryor
    CrashPryor says ...nice cut...great for riding bike trails too...I'm all over "White Room" too...
    Permalink posted 01/14/2007
  11. Mike the Knife
    Mike the Knife says Loves me some "Deserted Cities of the Heart," "Crossroads," and "I'm So Glad," whether in live or studio versions. All very Cream-y.
    Permalink posted 01/15/2007
  12. kat3260
    kat3260 says Crash - ahhh "White Room" was my introduction to Cream, and it goes down as one of the greatest songs ever in my book. Mike - "Deserted Cities of the Heart"...now that's a track I haven't checked in a while...ahhh, probably because I have misplaced my copy of _Wheels Of Fire_ - BLAST!
    Permalink posted 01/15/2007
  13. Spike
    Spike says Oops, I forgot to mention in my earlier comment about "I Feel Free" that at some points it has the same chord sounds that resemble piano strings being hit by a different kind of hammer, just like in the Beatles' "Getting Better," another song from the time that is about new feelings of freedom.
    Permalink posted 01/15/2007
  14. kat3260
    kat3260 says Spike...nice observation, I just listened to it...around 1:03 is the first instance, no?
    Permalink posted 01/15/2007
  15. Spike
    Spike says Yes.
    Permalink posted 01/15/2007

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